AceOfSpades wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
And funded with tax revenue.
ruveyn
Why do that when you can sell it off to a private contractor who'll charge double and pay the actual laborers half?
Cuz at least I can choose between different private contractors. When it comes to the government there's only one choice.
You really think it's a matter of choice?
The government doesn't shop around contracts, contracts are awarded to friends and family. It's probably the worst example of "it's who you know". At least with direct government, you aren't stuck with the same bad contract AFTER they're out of office. It's how and why mayors screw over New Orleans so much, they give out outlandish contracts to their friends in their last term that last beyond their mayoral terms. Nagin bankrupted the city with how much he was giving away and how much of it extended beyond his terms in office (and how many deals he brokered in his last 30 days). And that has nothing to do with democrat or republican, it has to do with this idiotic idea that private contractors are actually shopped in the same way that an individual consumer might (though not all do) shop around for deals.
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